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Wild Nights with Emily
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Striking cinematography highlights this insightful, well-acted, humorous, 84-minute, biographical film that is narrated by pompous editor and publisher Mabel Todd (Amy Seimetz) and unfolds in flashbacks as it explores the secretive life of lesbian, gingerbread-baking Victorian spinster poet Emily Dickson (Molly Shannon), who had only 11 poems out of more than 1,800 poems published before her death, and intertwines those risqué poems and letters inspired by her sister-in-law, lover, and muse Susan Gilbert Dickson (Susan Ziegler) with whom she shared a forbidden, passionate relationship that began in the 1860s as teenagers (Dana Melanie and Sasha Frolovai) in Amherst, Ma., and continued after she married her brother (Kevin Seal) until her death in 1886.

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Year:
2019
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 PG-13
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